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<text id=89TT2150>
<title>
Aug. 21, 1989: Business Notes:Investigations
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Aug. 21, 1989 How Bush Decides
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 47
Business Notes
INVESTIGATIONS
Wringing Out a Money Laundry
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<p> Colombia's Banco de Occidente has no U.S. branches, but its
Panamanian subsidiary did a booming underground business in
America. The Panama bank is expected to plead guilty in Atlanta
federal court this week to charges that it laundered hundreds
of millions of dollars in drug profits for Colombia's Medellin
cocaine cartel. The bank allegedly collected the illicit money
in New York bank accounts, from which money was wired
electronically to Europe and Latin America.
</p>
<p> As part of the plea agreement, the Panamanian bank could
pay a $5 million fine, giving up most of its $6.7 million net
worth. The fine would be the largest U.S. penalty ever paid by
a bank on money-laundering charges and would be the first time
a foreign bank with no formal operations in the U.S. has been
convicted of such violations.
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</body></article>
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